Definition of "attributing" []

• Present participle of attribute. (verb)

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• "Wright chose this title attributing it to George Billinghurst whose name appears on the title page, but as the English Short Title Catalogue reports in a note for the book, "Not in fact by George Billinghurst, but by Thomas Blount, who signs the dedication: T.B.""
• "Warren may be too kind in attributing Climategate to groupthink — there may soemhting more sinsiter at the core."
• "But you knew the tree was chopped down anyway and in attributing it to the chimp you have learned about chimpanzee capabilities (hypothetically, of course)."
• "Last week I made an error in attributing a Simenon introduction to John Banville."
• "And the writer is correct in attributing this to their poverty: Poor people know how to cope in an emergency."